14 Bible Verses about Hoarding

There are those who scatter, and more is added unto them; and there are those who withhold more than is just, but come to poverty.

There is another sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

For those that desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession and defrauded of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles' feet.

For they do not know to do right, said the LORD, storing up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal;

Jesus said unto him, If thou desire to be perfect, go and sell what thou hast and give it to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come and follow me.

Sell what ye have and give alms; ; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches neither moth corrupts.

He that withholds the grain, the people shall curse him, but blessing shall be upon the head of him that sells it.

Though he heaps up silver as the dust and prepares raiment as the clay, he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

Come now, Oh ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are rotten, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is corrupted with rust; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall completely eat your flesh, as fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.